וְלַֽעֲמָשָׂא֙ תֹּֽמְר֔וּ הֲל֛וֹא עַצְמִ֥י וּבְשָׂרִ֖י אָ֑תָּה כֹּ֣ה יַֽעֲשֶׂה־לִּ֤י אֱלֹהִים֙ וְכֹ֣ה יוֹסִ֔יף אִם־לֹ֠א שַׂר־צָבָ֞א תִּהְיֶ֧ה לְפָנַ֛י כָּל־הַיָּמִ֖ים תַּ֥חַת יוֹאָֽב׃
At kay Amasa ay sabihin ninyo: “Hindi ba ikaw ay aking buto at aking laman? Gayon nawa ang gawin sa akin ng Diyos, at higit pa, kung hindi ikaw ang magiging pinuno ng hukbo sa harap ko magpakailanman, kapalit ni Joab.”
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
185A copy of this text in Num. rabba 9(19); a retelling in a different Aramaic dialect in Lev. rabba 9(9), a short version in Hebrew Deut. rabba5(14). Rebbi Zevadiah186In Num. rabba 9(19): R. Zachariah. This is the correct name as attested to by all other quotes of his statements (cf. Peah 8, Note 151)., the son-in-law of Rebbi Levi, reported the following happening. Rebbi Meïr used to preach in the synagogue of Ḥamata187The hot springs of Tiberias. every Friday evening. There was a woman who used to hear him. Once he extended his sermon. She went and wanted to come to her house but found the light had gone out. Her husband asked her, where have you been? She said to him, to hear the preacher’s voice. He said to her, so and so188An oath formula, cf. 2S. 19:14., that this woman will not enter here into her house unless she went and spat into the preacher’s face. Rebbi Meïr saw this in the holy spirit189In Lev. rabba 9(9), he was informed by the Prophet Elijah. and faked pain in his eyes. He said, any woman who knows charms for the eye should come and do the charm. Her neighbors said to her, this answers your needs. Go to your house, represent yourself as a sorceress and spit in his eye. She came to him; he asked her, do you know to make a charm for the eye? In her fear of him, she said no. He said to her, if you spit into it seven times, he will feel better. After she had spat, he said to her: Go, and tell your husband, you said to me once, but she spat seven times! His students said to him, so does one denigrate the Torah? If you had ordered about him191In Num. rabba 9(19) ומרעיין instead of ומרציין, “one makes his wife pleasing to him.” On the face of it, that might be the better text. However, the text here might be a slightly corrupt pun if one reads ומרציין for ומרצעיין, “one treats him with leather straps until he asks his wife for forgiveness” since ע had become silent in Galilean Aramaic., would we not have brought him, whipped him on the footstool, and make him agree191In Num. rabba 9(19) ומרעיין instead of ומרציין, “one makes his wife pleasing to him.” On the face of it, that might be the better text. However, the text here might be a slightly corrupt pun if one reads ומרציין for ומרצעיין, “one treats him with leather straps until he asks his wife for forgiveness” since ע had become silent in Galilean Aramaic. to make up with his wife? He said to them, the honor of Meïr should not be greater than that of his Maker. Since the verse says that the Holy Name, written in holiness, should be erased by the water in order to make peace between husband and wife, the honor of Meïr not so much more?